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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
Obituary.

The remains of Mrs. Mary De Beaux
Janney, wife of Rev, Levan Janney, the
returned missionary from India, were con-
veyed from Pitman Grove on Tuesday and
inferred in the cemetery at Alloway.
Peter Danzenbaker, an old resident of
Cumberland county, died at his residence
at Bridgeton, on Monday, aged II years.
He was the father of Theodore Danzenba-
ker, ex-President of the New Jersey State
horticultural Society.
Richard NJ. Stretch, a w%ell-known citli-
zen of Alloway. died at that place on Tues
day in the 10Th year of his age. The de-
ceased had been engaged in merchantile
business in Alloway for many years. He
leaves two sons and two daughters.
Mrs. Rebecca Costill, widow of the late
Mahlon Costill, who was stricken last
week with apoplexy at her daughters res
idence at Auburn, died on Wednesday
morning last. The remains were brought
to the residence of her son-in-law, Jos. B..
Cobb, in South Woodstown on Wednes-
day, and the funeral will be held from that
place tomorrow, Saturday.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
LODGES AND SOCIETIES.

WooDsrowN LODGE, No. Jos, l. O. G. Il
Meets every Tuesday evening in Turner's
building.
WooDsTowN LODGE, No. 1873, +. & A. M
Meets Tuesday evening, ON or before full
moon and two weeks thereafter, in Borton's
Hall.
WooDBINE LODGE, No. 15S, l. Q. O. F.
Meets i'll Turner's Building every Friday
evening.
MosAosA TRIBE, Nc. AZ, IMP. O. Il. NJ
Meets in Turner's Building every Monday
evening,
WooDsTowN GRANGE, No. s, p. OF IL
Meets every Wednesday evening in Turner's
Building.
JOHN G.. FOSTER Posi-, No. 81, e.. a. r.
Meets on the first and third Thursday in the
month in Riley's Building.
HARMONY COUNCIL, No. So, o. u. A. NJ
Meets every Tuesday evening in Riley's
Building.
WYCKoFF CoUECIL No. 81, JR. o. U. A. NJ
Meets every Wednesday evening in Riley's
Building.
WoMAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANC UNION
Meets every Friday evening at their room
in Turner's Building. President, Mrs. Anna
f. Souder; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. II.
A. CawleY.
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Reunions of Veterans.

A reunion Of the 18th New Jersey Vol
unteers will be held at Somerville on the
10Th of October.
The reunion of the Seventh Regiment
veterans will be held at Somerville on the
18th of October.
The annual re- union of the 18th liegi-
ment, N. j. ", will be held in the Court
House at Woodbury. on Monday, Septem-
Der 10Th. 1t will be the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of the mastering in of the Regi-
ment, and a big time among the old vet
Grams is expected.
The Ninth N. j. Vet. Vol. Association
will hold a reunion at Trenton, on Tues
day, Sept. 18th, at noon. Members of the
Association and all honorably discharged
members of the Ninth Regiment are re-
spectfully invited to attend, it being the
twenty-sixth anniversary of the muster-in
of the command. j. Madison Drake, Sec
rotary, at Elizabeth, n. j., will send tick
cts emitting the holder to reduced rates on
the railroad to all who desire to attend this
reunion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The body of the young Jew who COM
mitted suicide, or was supposed by some
to have been murdered. at Alliance, the
Jewish settlement in this county, was dis
inferred last week in compliance with re-
peated demands of the Alliance settlers
and a post-mortem examination had. 1t
was satisfactorily established that the
young man died of st~rangulation, no other
marks of violence being found upon his
person. The people seemed to be satisfied
with the result of the examination.
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school Notes.

The public schools will open Monday,
September 9TH.
Teachers examination at the Public
School room tomorrow.
Joseph Stewart will teach the Auburn
public school this coming term.
The public schools of Salem will proba-
bly, open on Monday, September 10th. In
Millville they open on the 9th, and in
Bridgeton on the 18th.
Miss Maggie, daughter of Rev. W. A.
Allen, of Pennsville, has returned home
from her visit to Canada and will teach the
Pennsville school the coming term.
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In Favor of lower Interest.

At a recent meeting of the Salem County
Pomona Grange, the following was adopted:
Resolved, That Il committee be appointed by
Salem County Pomona Grange to correspond
with the various subordinate oranges of the
State and urge such of their members as favor
a reduction of the legal rate of interest to not
more than five per cent, to take such action
at the primary meetings of their respective
parties as will secure the election to both
branches of the Legislature of men who will
give their active support and votes TO obtain
such reduction.
The committee consists of j. W. Pan
coast, Empson Atkinson and Louis
Garrison.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

An unexpected rush of tomatoes set in
on Tuesday, and the factories are making
good time.
Tuesday there were twenty-fcur wagon
loads waiting to unload at one time at the
Dickinson & Lippincott factory.
The tomato crop around Elmer seems to
be more backward thar in other portions
of this and Cumberland counties.
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Good Fishing.

The mill pond was drawn off last week
for needed repairs to the fore-bay. AS is
usual when the pond is off fish were plen-
tiful, and the boys turned out in force. A
couple of South Woodstown Young ladies
made up their minds that the boys should
not have all the fish, SO they equipped
themselves with gum boots and other wet
weather toggery, chartered a row boat and
went down the stream after their share of
the finny tribe. They got there in great
shape, returning with $50 fish of all sizes,
including cells, ''catties'' and ~''sannies."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
Given HimseIrAwax.

w had q handsome Icing melon given to MS
last sunday. 1t was the only melon presented
to rs this summer and, of course, we priced it
highly and anticipated Il treat in cutting it,.
But Pat Kirwan, the livcrynan atSwedesboro,
hooked it out of our buggy.-Sunbeam.
People will naturally ask, "what was the
SUNBEAM, doing so far away from homes The
Junior has given himself away, besides losing
the aforesaid melon.-5Souih JerSegRan.
Stupid, What was "Pat Kirwan' do
ing at Salem?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
CHURCHES.

FRIENDs-Services on First and Fifth days at
1880 A. NJ. Monthly meeting first Tuesday
after last Monday in the month. Sunday
school meets at 900 O'Clock every Sunday
morning.
METHODIST EPIsooPAL-Rey Il. IL. Durell.
Services ut 1000 A. M. and $50 p. NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 80 p. NJ.
Sunday School at 200 P. NJ, superintendent,
George w. Boone.
BAPrIsT-Rev. w. T.. Cornwall.
Services at 1900 a. NJ. and 7.30 p. NJ. Prayer
meeting Thursday at 7.30 p. NJ.
Sunday School at zoo p. NJ, Joseph Bradway,
Superintendent.
INSTRUMENTATION. Il. p. johnson.
Services mt 1000 A. NJ. and 7.30 p. NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 7.30 p. NJ.
Sunday School at IL As A. NJ, j.. Il. Jaquette,
superintendent.
GATHoLIC-Rey. Father Tracey.
Beginning Sunday, January 9th, services at
IL O'Clock, A, NJ, and every other Sunday at 8
O'clock. 4. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

John II. Peterson & Son, our ice dealers,
are about to erect an additional ice house
at East Lake. Their business now re-
quires two wagons to accommodate their
customers. Mr.. Peterson started the ice
business in a small way some years ago
and it has grown up with the town until it
is an important item in our Borough's in
dustries, and if it is a profitable one it is
no more than this accommodating firm de
serves.
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Wen Relieve it when We See If.

While adniring the size and looks of nine
and n halt pound canteloupe displayed in the
window at Smiths new store last week, Il
gentleman remarked that he saw a canteloupe
on exhibition in B%ridgeton fully as large
again.-M., IN South Jerseumon.
Bring Bridgeton up here and let us have
a look at its big canteloupe.
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To BE BOYcOtfed. Perhaps.

A friend informs us thai he noticed some
time ago a dusky Bushtowner copying off
a list of names of members of the Salem
County Protective Association, No. 1,
which is printed on card board and hung
up in different business places. Are the
members of the Association to be boycotted
for their interference with the chicken in
dustry
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AND GETS INTO TROUBLE:

fiirt, and how hard it is for some of them
to catch step.-EImer Times.
AND GETS INTO TROUBLE
Two Elmer young ladies who have been
attending camp at Pitman, were swinging
in a hammock at that place last Tuesday,
there was also a young man in the ham,
mock, when the rope broke very suddenly
letting them down, bruising them severe
ly, so thatthey have felt very sore ever since.
Moral-Don't swing in a hammock when
you ought to be attending meeting.-I6id.
WHICH CAUSES HIM TO MIX THINGS
Pitman Grove was a gala day last Sun
day.-Ibid.
AMI MAKES HIM LONG FOR a BETTER C)
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
When will we find a better time TO take
steps toward borough organization than at
the present? 1t would make taxes a little
higher, but that would be nothing in COM
parison to the benefit the town would re-
ceive.-Ibid.
AND FOR AN IMPROVEMENT IN SIDEWALKS
ON WHICH TO TRAVEL IN SEARCH
OF ITEMS
Why cannot we have an improvemeA Mt in
our sidewalks. In certain parts of the
town they are properly attended to. in
other parts they are sadly neglected.-Ibid
A Bear story.
If you should ever happen at the old
Elmer (~Pittsgrove) grist mill, and cast
YOU eyes to the ceiling overhead you would
probably sec what at first sight would
strike you as a piece of dried-up leather with
a nail driven through it to hold it in place,
but which closer observation would i'm
press you as being the talons or claws of
some animal of prey, Well that, what
there is left of it, is the foot of a large
black bear killed in that neighborhood
nearly forty years ago.
The story as told us in good enough for
a romance but then as it comes from so
practical, every day sort of a place as
Elmer it must be accepted we suppose as
bottom facts. 1t appears from the story
told us that in the year 1e49 or 80 a woman
engaged in ohesnutting on what is now
known as Chestnut Island, just a little
north of the place, discovered a bear up a
tree which was afterward seen by others
and hunted down and killed. Those were
great days for the sale Of ''tangle foot
and 'put EN- to sleep stuff and so his
bearship was brought down to the hotel
and suspended ON ropes from the sign
board post to a tree, and, after public
curiosity was sufficiently gratifed by the
sight, taken down and roasted and a big
feast made of it, at which ''half seas over
fellows ate and declared it equal to ven
ison. That was one way the landlords had
of raising their rent in these good old times.
The bear skin is used to this day by a Mr..
Johnson living out that way, and the foot
as before said graces the ceiling on the
mill room overhead. -Bridgetoa Meas.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The Woodbury. and Salem clubs Will
play a 4 game in Salem this afternoon.
The Tivoli's, of Elmer, will play a Phil
adelphia club on Tuesday, the occasion of
the Red Mems anniversary.
OF the twelve or thirteen games thus faI
played by the Fenwicks, of Salem, this
season, they have been victorious in all
but one of them.
The Defiance club Of Woodbury. defeat
ed the Woodstown nine at Woodbury. last
Friday by the following score:
4 . 6 .
= =
Defiance, / 3 O 0 3 0 o KS
WoOdstown, 0 q 0 / . o 0 o.
Total base hits-Deiance IL, Woodstown 8;
rrors-Defla ., Woodstown .. Defiance
battery--penn and Phifer; Woodstown bat
~tery-stepler and Potts. Umpire-Geo. Mad
den. Time-two hours.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

\ Dakota man was struck by lightning and
killed while on his way to borrow his neigh.
boris paper. There is Ct moral in this.-SoUh
JefSeymdn.
That's so. Well send the hired girl next
time we want to read our neighbours South
Jersey1ndn.
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POST OFFICE.


Ofice hours, 600 A.. NJ. to 500 p. NJ.
Office hours for money order business, 100
A. NJ. to 200 p. NJ.
MAILs-Close at G.45 and SOB A.. NJ, 1898 and
lib p. NJ. Arrive at 9.39 a. M, 800 and 100 p. NJ.
SALEM MAIIS-Close at 9.19 a. NJ. and 40 p. NJ,
Arrive at 1913 and Ais T. NJ.
SHARPTowN MAILs-Close at $50 A. NJ. Arrive
at 100 A.. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

Mrs. L. B. Wright is spending q few
days at Atlantic City.
Samuel B. Bowen, Esq, ofPhiladelphia,
was in town on Monday.
Miss May Trenchard, of Bridgeton, is
visiting Miss Le9na King.
l.. G. Smith, of the Philadelphia Egen5ng
Bulletin, has been spending a few days at
his former home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Brown. of Tren-
ton, are visiting at the residence of DR.. L.
Gilman, on East avenue.
Rev. L. w. Batten, wife and child, of
West Philadelphia, are visiting in Woods
town, dividing their time between Rev.
and Mrs. Cornwell and Dan Ware, Esq,
and family.
Miss Hannah Apple. of Philadelphia,
and Theodore Tomlinson, son of Joseph
Tomlinson, ex-mayor of Jacksonville, Hi
nois, are visiting at John Borden's, on
Salem street.
Miss II. III. Flanagan, our photograph
artist, intends visiting Florida for the
winter, starting in November next. Dur
ing her absence her photograph gallery
will be closed.
Rev. Pennington Corson, of the Sharp
town NJ. Z. Church, left yesterday to spend
a week at the Seaville camp meeting. His
pulpit will be occupied next Sunday by
BENZ. Patterson, of Salem.
Mr.. George F. Nixon, of the Post Office
Department, Washington, and formerly
editor of the Bridgeton Chronicle, is spend
ing a two weeks vacation in Gloucester,
Cumberland and Salem counties.
Horace Tomlin, grandson of Abraham
r. Riohman uhp loft thic nIUhhorJoaI
ten years ago and settled in Missouri. is
spending a short time with his Woodstown
relatives. We are glad to learn that Mr..
Tomlin has prospered in his western home.
Along the Railroads.
The Pennsylvania railroad resumed the
sale of Thousand mile books yesterday.
The quarterly tax paid to the State by
the Delaware River Railroad Company is
$171. SO.
1t is said there is no authority for the
report that the w. J. r. r. Co. intend at
present to build a branch road from VOL
ferts's Station on the Swedesboro Rail-
road, over to Mulliea Hill.
1t is said that the West Jersey Railroad
Company intend to erect a station Just
north Of the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting
Associations grounds in order to accom-
modate the patrons of the road who would
like to visit camp meeting on Sunday, but
who can't reach the grounds unless they
drive from Sewell or Glassboro.
Bailey & Nelson, of Camden, have been
awarded the contract for constructing the
West Jersey Railroad extension into Bridge
ton. A force of 200 men lave been put to
work as the job must be finished within
.-o go, IT, I'LL h. 4--N~ .:1..
long and will run around East Lake d.
rectly into the heart of the city.
According to an opinion by Justice Reed,
of the New Jersey Supreme Court, the
franchise of the West Jersey Railroad
will not permit the company to
extend their line and locate their ter
minus in Bridgeton where it is now pro-
posed. To overcome this difficulty, it is
stated that the extension will be made and
owned by a corporation known as the
West Jersey Terminal Company.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
gloucester Co. hoard of Agriculture.

The Gloucester County Board of Agri-
culture met in Patrons Hall, Mullica Hill,
last Saturday, President, Thomas Borton,
in the chair, Vice President, Secretary
and Treasurer present. Owing to the Sec
rotary failing to give public notice the at
tendance was small, but not without inter-
estlng results. The law recognizing the
Boards of Agriculture was exa mined, and
notice was given that a revision of the by
laws would be presented at the next regu-
lar meeting. As the aim of the new law is
to rave the Board represent all agriculture
and horticulture associations in the county,
the Secretary was directed to send a request
to each Grange in the county and to the
Farmers Protective Association to
send delegates to the next meeting to be
held at Mickleton, on Saturday, the 10Th
Of November. There was some discussion
in regard to a produce exchange, also on
the importance of utilizing the signal
service, and of holding a N exhibition, but
no definite action was taken. According
to the statement of the Treasurer the COM
mittee of the State Board, in a%pportioning
the appropriation in accordance with the
merit of reports, assigned the Gloucester
county board a sum three-fold larger than
that received formerly.
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1irectoru.
WEST JERSEY RAILROAD.

Trains going north.-G.39 and SIG A. NJ, l2.f3
Trains going south.-9.29 A. NJ, 2.44, AS and
G.29P NJ. Sundays, 9.lS A. NJ. and $40 p. NJ.
Trains leave Philadelphia.-S.20 n. NJ, 1.30, $40
and 5.2O p. NJ. Sundays, 500 A. M. and $40 p. NJ.
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Memorial

The Memorial Stone Tablet authorized
by the Gloucester County Board of Free
holders, has just been placed in the new
Court House at Woodbury.. The design is
neat and the work executed in a manner
that does credit to the stone cutter. The
tablet is of white marble 81 feet high by
% feet wide. nicely polished and plainly
decorated. The inscription is as follows:
IN M%EMoRIAM.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY
D~EDICATES THIS
MEMORIAL TABLET
- TO HER CITIZENS WHO
VOLUNTEERED o
THE PRESERVATION
OF
THE UNION.
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We We're ..Onto Him.,

Tit Barnsboro correspondent of the Grou-
cester County Democrat states that the other
day a lean, lank and ready individual came
into that village with a preparation with
which to silver plate brass, copper and like
metals by simply rubbing the liquid on the
surface of the article, which produced an ex-
cellent imitation of silver, and strange to say
some of our villagers invested to the tune of
fifteen cents a bottle. and hunting up their
brass chains, watches, etc, soon had them
looking like silver. But, alas. on examining
their jewelry the next morning they were as
yellow as ever, but the talkative individual
had slid to other parts MISUNDERSTANDING
NeteS.
The ''lean, lank and ready" individual
aforesaid referred to struck Woodstown last
Friday. He gave our Office a call. We
had his newspaper photograph clipped
from the Democrat in soak, and as soon as
he opened his head and made known his
'sbiz" we showed it to him. His counte-
nance fell about a mile and a half as he
asked whether the paragraph in question
had appeared yet in our paper. He left us
apparently in great doubt as to whether
he should work the town. or not. We
nave not heard whether any of our people
got taken in. If they did they can find
sympathy at Barnsboro.
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Annual Meeting of the Protective Asso-
citation No. 1.

SAhaioh No. Il
The eighth annual meeting of the Salem
County Protective Association No. 1 was
held at McAllister's hall on Monday after
noon In the absence of the president,
vice president Richman Coles occupied
the chair. The treasurer's annual report
showed that the amount of funds on hand at
the previous annual meeting was s311.37;
received during the year in fees and dues,
$1,000. There was paid out for advertis-
ing, rewards and services S42.3 6, leaving
a balance in the treasurer's hands of $780,
As. The following were elected officers for
the ensuing year: President, John w.
Dickinson; Vice President, Richman Coles;
Secretary, Benz. Borton; Treasurer, Chas.
II. Richman. The executive committee of
the previous year was reelected. A men,
Der of the society stated that few nights
ago some persons trespassed upon his
melon patch and maliciously destroyed
about fifty of his finest melons. The ex-
ecutiye committee was authorized to offer
a reward of ten dollars for the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the depredators.
The annual dues for another year are the
same as last year-twenty-fiye cents. j..
Walter Pancoasu ordered his name added
to the members list. Members in arrears
over five quarters are not entitled to assist
ance from the society in case Of loss of
property by theft or incendiarism. The
next meeting will be held in November.
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Permits granted for the use of books at s
cents per week, on application to any of the
trustees.
E.. S. FoGG, Secretary.
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real Estate transactions.

The executors of Anna S. Bowen, de-
ceased, have sold the following parcels of
land in Woodstown: To Thomas Enochs,
the dwelling and lot 50 feet front where
he resides on the Main street; to William
NJ. Coles, a lot 90 feet front adjoining
the Enochs' property; to John II. Peter
son, a lot 1885, feet front. by $50 deep, be-
ing the lot on which "Peterson's Block
stands, including the lot occupied by John
w. Goforth; to John Hanes, a lot 291 feet
in front, occupied by the Register Office and
Youker's poultry stand. 1t is in contempla-
ton to open a street across this property
this fall between the Register office and the
residence of Isaac Ballinger, and running
to the railroad grounds, which will open
several desirable lots for building pur-
poses. The lots on the east side of the
road will also be put in the market as soon
as they can DE laid out.
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B,.e. Foster visits pitman:-

1t beats all how the Pitman girls do
flirt, and how hard it is for some of them
to catch sten.=EImer TINES.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13
JOHN SWINTON.

One who knows the causes of
things; who had patience and wis
dom and fortitude; one of the
disciples joining the sententious-
ness of Eryximachus with the ell
oquence of Agathan; a leader and
yet a fellow-student in the sympo-
sium; one who sacrificed.
Sacri6ced2 Yes,-but not for
you, not for me, not for any or for
all of the herd, but for the sake of
sacrifice and for manhood, and as
the great prophet said on the
sands of Rumsgate, for STRUGGLE.
Hail, to thee, chief, in thy fall!
Are the PROSTATE columns of the
Parthenon lost to the world?
Who stood at Thermopyla
amid the hills of Greece1 Who
lowered at the bridge within sight
of the Eternal City7
y y n
Perhaps there are other wea-
pons in the armory that will fit to
thy hand. | do not remember
what thou hast written in these
past four years, but who can for
get Storm and Stress" and Ogles-
by's sword and thy tramp abroad
and old John Brown?